Emerson v. Emerson

BOND, L—

The bill of complaint filed at the institution of this suit alleged that the husband! had abandoned the -wife more than three years previously, and upon that allegation prayed that a divorce a vinculo might be granted, and that the wife might be “declared to be entitled to receive by way of alimony such an allowance from her said husband as may be proportionate to his means and station in life.” ■ The defendant made no answer, and a decree pro confesso was duly entered!. And, subsequently, during the taking of testimony -before the examiner there was offered in evidence an agreement…